Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic said the forced break due to the global pandemic has been a blessing in disguise as she got to improve her cooking skills and was able to give her body some rest.

In a recent interview to Swiss daily Blick, Belinda, 23, who is spending the lockdown with her fitness trainer boyfriend Martin Hromkovic, said: "I feel that the break is good for my body. After Indian Wells [event], we actually wanted to stay in the USA for a long, then we changed our minds overnight. My parents returned to Switzerland and I flew to Bratislava, Slovakia to be with Martin [Hromkovic] otherwise we would have been away from each other for long.